070: Not the Postmortem We Wanted to Run

Towards the end of my workday on Tuesday, tragedy struck the YouTube HQ in San Bruno, CA. A shooter made their way through a parking deck to a patio where people were eating and socializing. The shooter opened fire claiming three victims before turning the weapon on themselves. In Google’s Project Aristotle, psychological safety is identified as the number one contributor to “What makes a team effective at Google?” In the wake of this random act of violence, Google’s response might be the most watched handling of a workplace shooting. This is not the postmortem we want. But, this could be the postmortem we need.

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Events

Open Source 101 Columbia
Date: 2018-04-17
Sadly I won’t be able to participate in Open Source 101 Columbia but if it’s half as good as the one held in Raleigh it’s a can’t miss event. Open Source 101 is such a fantastic and inexpensive event (if you need assistance with a ticket let me know).

DevOpsDays Atlanta 2018
Dates: 2018-04-17 through 2018-04-18
ATL, shawty! I’m a last minute add to the DevOpsDays Atlanta program. I’m busting out a brand new talk for y’all too: DevOps is Not a War.

Event-Based Architectures in Go
Date: 2018-04-27
We’ll talk about design considerations, effective uses for event-based systems, the state of the Go ecosystem, and work through some examples that leverage Apache Kafka.

ChefConf 2018
Dates: 2018-05-22 through 2018-05-25
Join an awesome community of #DevOps and automation professionals at ChefConf in Chicago. I’ll be presenting, DevOps is Not a War. Save 10% with discount code Hugs4Chef.

DevOpsDays Toronto 2018
Dates: 2018-05-30 through 2018-05-31
I’ll admit it, I’ve never been to Canada. But, I’m definitely going to DevOpsDays Toronto this year to present What the Military Taught Me about DevOps.

Chaos Conf
Date: 2018-09-28
Chaos Conf looks super awesome. Opening the event will be Adrian Cockcroft, VP AWS, who called 2018 “The year of #chaosengineering”. Closing out the night will be Jessie Frazelle, one of the top #containers experts on the planet currently at Microsoft.

GM’s dress code is only two words: “Dress appropriately.” Empowering managers at all levels to establish standards (and enforce them) has taught GM a lot. I wish more companies would take this approach to policy.

Process

Is the term DevSecOps necessary? As more companies adopt cloud technologies and containerization, security must be tightly integrated throughout the entire infrastructure.

DevOps as the Art and Science of Deliberate Practice: “Professional teams get and stay at peak performance through constant practice. And it’s not just repeating the same drills over and over—it’s based on continuous iterative improvement, which has multiple components.”

Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs From 2020, Replacing Intel: I can’t wait; I’m a big fan of ARM. Intel is not worth the money. Apple is doing innovative work on ARM chips. The fact my iPhone has six cores and my first generation iPad Pro can run Civilization VI with no fans is impressive. Bring on the Apple processors, please.

If you’re interested in ARM platforms I highly recommend you subscribe to Works on ARM. It’s a great newsletter run by Ed Vielmetti.

China vs. The World: A Kubernetes and Container Perspective: “Respondents from China are, in general, less far along in their deployment of containers and Kubernetes. They are also much more likely to deploy containers to Alibaba Cloud and OpenStack cloud providers, compared to the English survey respondents. The Mandarin respondents were also twice as likely to cite reliability as a challenge.”

Tools

How to Explain Kubernetes by Corey Quinn: “Kubernetes means different things to different people, and communicating its value to people who hadn’t encountered it in the real world yet was something of an exercise in metaphor.”

Kubernetes Security Logging with Falco & Fluentd: Using Sysdig Falco and Fluentd can provide a more complete Kubernetes security logging solution, giving you the ability to see abnormal activity inside application and kube-system containers.

Jobs

SJ Technologies is looking to bring someone on board to work in our DevOps and Digital Transformation practice. If you want to help some big time companies eager to implement change let me know. Plus, you get to work with John Willis and I which is pretty great (IMHO).

Duo Security, a Michigan based company, is looking for an experienced person to fill a Operations Engineer - Platform Security role. I’ve heard nothing but good things about Duo.

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I'm Chris Short, 20+ veteran of the IT industry and 11 year veteran of the US Air Force. I help people and companies embrace DevOps practices and tools through writing and public speaking. I am a staunch advocate for transparency and open source solutions to problems.